Atom Pros and Cons

Atom is really good with the autocompletion and with the the ease of use for different scripting languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing as such to Point out about Atom. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The minimalistic design and lightweight characteristic, which wouldn't take much CPU processing, are the best. It also has many packages and plugin libraries to meet the developer's requirements for every scenario. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As of now, I don't seem to dislike anything with this editor, as it meets my requirements. If anyone is looking for notepad++ alternative, then this is it. Also, it is an opensource tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atom provides remote collaboration so by two people can code on the same panel. The integration of source code is awesome. highly customizable platform. the open source extension and support are greater. it supports markup languages too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It required a lot of time to start. managing plugin becomes cumbersome. find difficulty in the documentation. create an issue in GIT support. UI increases the level of difficulty, need to improve UI. Packages should be more advanced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atom is a fast, responsive and good ui editor. It has various list of addons available as well so it helps a lot in increasing the productivity and efficiency in coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As I told earlier that it is very light, therefore, it lacks a lot of features that other softwares like the ones with jetbrains offer or VS code offers. Therefore, if you are used to such extra features, you are going to miss in atom. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atom has a very simple GUI developed by GitHub, so it has a built-in git feature. It provides a decent amount of extensions and plugins to add more features for your convenience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Atom does provide a very limited number of extensions, whereas VScode offers a vast number of extensions and customization. Atom is slower than some other text editors, and when you add more extensions and plugins, it worsens. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Almost all language support which are needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Need to work on auto suggestion part and gui Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When compared to all other code editors I used before, Atom provides the best user experience cross-platform. The user experience is consistent when I switch between Mac OS and Windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I guess not much. But if the CSS color code can be turned into a color preview inline, then will be a nice feature like other code editor does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best thing I like about atom is how beginner-friendly it is, with a very simple interface and no new keyboard shortcuts to learn for a simple use case. What I loved is that I could find many extensions nearly for every use case that I had, be it syntax highlighting for languages, dynamic linting, debuggers and even music controls. Even I can make my customized theme in Atom if one is good with CSS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I feel that Atom starts showing response issues when working on large text-based projects. When I try to use the search feature it is a bit slow. I found sublime text to be more efficient when working with text-based projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's fast, it takes minimal time to load. Its find and replace is a feature which I use the most whatever work I am doing, it's so convenient and easy. I don't like when dialog box opens for find and replace. Its text processing is very fast I have loaded more than 50 MB of text files and still, I can find and replace them in it. It has many shortcut keys, which is very convenient and you set them by config files. Its integration with Git makes it time-saving too. Also, the fact that it opens files in the format in which they should be open, like for a jpg file, shows it as an image, not as a text file in its raw form. It doesn't consume many resources and good IDE for web development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is not much to dislike in this software, you can say it has a lot of features and once you get to know about one feature/shortcut, for which you were taking a long way, you feel a lot bad. So more options in the top ribbon would be appreciated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A free text editor with a lot of easy to use functionalities like

- Several packages

- Integration with Github

- Multi-window code comparison

- Lightweight

- Highly customizable (themes and packages) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Takes some time to start when running on systems with HDDs

- Heavy packages may slow down Atom

- No access to the terminal

- Intermittent Crashes

- Has a decent learning curve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.